It absolutely is that easy. For the people that this constitution was designed for, which is explicitly NOT everyone. It's only for people who do the right thing most of the time, when there are neither penalties nor rewards for it. Only for people who put their shopping carts in the corral over 90% of the time.
Nations which don't have this feature aren't capable of self-rule. There's a minimum time preference (that is, you have to think about the future), and even more important there is a minimum level of empathic ability. Nations that don't make the cut must be ruled by elites or autocrats in order to function as a civilization, which is what they've been doing for centuries. Nations which do make the cut can produce a functioning civilization no matter the format, but do better and greater things when un-harassed by useless busybodies.
Maintaining freedom demands a certain caliber of people. Heaven couldn't remain heaven if they had a loose immigration policy towards hell. You can't remain a nation of laws when criminals run free and unpunished. You can't stay a free country unless you keep it exclusively for freedom-minded people.
It absolutely is that easy. For the people that this constitution was designed for, which is explicitly NOT everyone. It's only for people who do the right thing most of the time, when there are neither penalties nor rewards for it. Only for people who put their shopping carts in the corral over 90% of the time.
Nations which don't have this feature aren't capable of self-rule. There's a minimum time preference (that is, you have to think about the future), and even more important there is a minimum level of empathic ability. Nations that don't make the cut must be ruled by elites or autocrats in order to function as a civilization, which is what they've been doing for centuries. Nations which do make the cut can produce a functioning civilization no matter the format, but do better and greater things when un-harassed by useless busybodies.
Maintaining freedom demands a certain caliber of people. Heaven couldn't remain heaven if they had a loose immigration policy towards hell. You can't remain a nation of laws when criminals run free and unpunished. You can't stay a free country unless you keep it exclusively for freedom-minded people.